This is complete bull. Will you (OP) buy every single ES chip from ebay as well? There are some nice $1000 Xeons there... Not to mention Pentium III and stuff like that.

If this ES stuff will ever be investigated I'm almost willing to bet my next paycheck on the fact that Intel releases most of them on purpose... Perhaps the wrong ones are in circulation, then

I also wonder what Intel has to lose on having these chips in circulation.

*headshake*